1 Chronicles 5:25,26 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

The captivity of the three eastern tribes. A fuller account may be read in 2 Kings 17:6-18.

1 Chronicles 5:25-26

25 And they transgressed against the God of their fathers, and went a whoring after the gods of the people of the land, whom God destroyed before them.

26 And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgathpilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, even the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them unto Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan, unto this day.